Did Scientists Just Solve the Bee Collapse Mystery?

Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7723456, but this article does add some context.

As far as I can see the only reason colony collapse is seen as a mystery is because companies selling pesticides issue press releases saying so that get spit out verbatim by journalists.

> a grain of table salt weighs 64,800 micrograms

Um... citation needed. Setting aside the issue of measuring weight in units of mass, where are these people getting their mega-salt?

(ETA: Source appears to be Yahoo! Answers, as far as I can tell. Clearly reputable.)

We're solving the bee collapse mystery on average about 2.31265 times a day now. I'm starting to fear that we're solving it so well, we're gonna produce the opposite effect - bee explosion.

And now just think about this for a second - a bee explosion. Is this really a better problem to have, seriously?

My scientific opinion is that some problems are just not meant to be solved. Instead, we should look into quadcopter beebots.